me, myself & Mariel

haven't blogged in a very long time, but i saw something i couldn't NOT blog about...

Documentation Notes by an agent:
-eu* already paid his bill but he still cant connect
-but when he got me on the line everything worked

*eu - end user

how vain can you get? LOL

all in a call center agent's day's work...

Agent: "Ma'am, someone was supposed to cold transfer you, I mean, transfer you warmly."

LOL

this is my new favorite song...

(i know i haven't blogged in sooooooooo long but this is)
just a quick post because i thought she was absolutely blog-worthy.
i'm swiping this from my friend's multiply site.

5 years old and somewhere over the rainbow

sooooo awesome i cried just listening...

for you who introduced me to this song knowing i'd be singing it to you in my mind...

A Lonely September
~ Plain White T's

I'm sittin' here all by myself
just tryin' to think of something to do
Tryin' to think of something, anything
just to keep me from thinking of you
But you know it's not working out
'cause you're all that's on my mind
One thought of you is all it takes
to leave the rest of the world behind

Well I didn't mean for this to go as far as it did
And I didn't mean to get so close and share what we did
And I didn't mean to fall in love, but I did
And you didn't mean to love me back, but I know you did

I'm sittin' here tryin' to convince myself
that you're not the one for me
But the more I think, the less I believe it
and the more I want you here with me
You know the holidays are coming up
I don't want to spend them alone
Memories of Christmas time with you
will just kill me if I'm on my own
I know it's not the smartest thing to do
we just can't seem to get it right
But what I wouldn't give to have one more chance tonight

I'm sittin' here tryin' to entertain myself with this old guitar
But with all my inspiration goneit's not getting me very far
I look around my room and everything I see reminds me of you
Oh please, baby won't you take my hand
we've got nothing left to prove

And I didn't mean to meet you then
we were just kids
And I didn't mean to give you chills
the way that I kiss
And I didn't mean to fall in love, but I did
And you didn't mean to love me back but I know you did
Don't say you didn't love me back 'cause you know you did
No, you didn't mean to love me back
But you did

finally got to buy a new mobile phone yesterday. this isn't exactly what i had in mind, i originally wanted an N73. but we (my friend JV with his gf Rochelle and myself) fell in love with it at first sight. this is the Nokia 6233 Music Edition. chic.

now, if i could get one of those wonderful Creative Zen mp3 players, i'd have a really merry Christmas. LOL

i want one of these...

Agent: "Thank you for calling **** Internet Services. My name is Syd. Am I speaking with Mr. Pakhin Shet?"

True story as told to me by my colleague Syd from when she was still an agent.

LOL

... was the last time that i posted. t'was so long ago i've actually forgotten the first movie i saw after that Chuck and Larry movie, or if i actually saw one before Stardust.

incidentally, Stardust was a really good movie. i'd seen the trailers and i wasn't really compelled to watch it then, even with stars like Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro in the cast. but i saw the movie with a friend and it was really good. watch it if you haven't.

meanwhile, i'm contemplating on whether i should go to work, or what time i will. it's been a rainy 2 days now, i just really wanna stay in bed and curl up under the sheets and watch dvd's.

ugh.

i've finally seen the season 2 premiere epi, and i can't wait to see the rest of the season.

i heart Claire and West. i can't wait to see their story unravel.

but OMG, Claire and Peter look sooooooo good together here...



*sigh*

so i thought it was time to change my layout again to something more Christmasy. (i've done this with my second Friendster account using a different background, which was blue and snowy, and i'll probably do the same with my primary Friendster account using another background). and now i have a green background for LJ with a red, a gold, and a green leaf for accent.

i didn't need to tell you that, by the way. you can just check it out yourself. Ü

today yesterday was about harassment, passivity, spite, and whatnot.

some people either have no feelings, no reaction, or no consideration.

oh crappy day...

last saturday, i went out for the first time with this old suitor from high school whom i recently bumped into thru Friendster. we watched The Bourne Ultimatum and then thought to take a quick trip to the restrooms before having lunch.

so there i was in front of the mirror, and he peeked in and saw me fixing my hair and retouching my make-up, and he made jokes about how i was pretty already and how i should just finish up and go, and so i did. and just outside the door, he takes my hands - both of them - in his, gently leans into me as i hold my breath and then says... "Bukas ang zipper mo." ("Your fly is open.")

hahahahahahahahahaha!

i was like, "OMG! can the earth just swallow me whole now?" i've gone on other dates before with other guys, but i had to have my fly open for this one. ugh.

he was nice about it though. he kept saying "Ok lng yon." ("It's ok.") every time i'd mention it. i just felt so embarrassed i wanted to die right there.

* * * * *
i went out for lunch with my eldest brother a week ago. we were texting and i'd told him i was depressed, so he offered to take me to lunch so we could talk.

i hadn't seen my brother in so long i'd forgotten how much wisdom he could give me. this time i took home 4 questions.

my brother said, when we die and pass on, we get asked 4 questions (presumably to get into heaven):

1. how did you live?
2. how much did you love?
3. (hmmm... i can't remember what this is right now but i'll post it when i remember.)
4. as a result of your being, how has the world become?

gawd. that last one just kind of shook me. that's like the hardest of the four.

and then he said something else about 3 things you can do to be able to say that you've lifed your life and done your share of good in the world:

1. sire a son (for males)
2. plant a tree
3. write a book

i've at least planted a tree. i have yet to write a book or, i guess for females, give birth.

great talk, that was. got me thinking.

This is like a great motivation for having kids of my own... LOL

Whatevah!

( ok i've been back for a week now and i haven't really posted anything yet about my trip to Shenzhen so here goes... )

so i went to Banco De Oro - Santolan this morning to buy some USD for my out-of-the-blue trip abroad, and as my luck would have it, the bank was offline - "bank-wide", they said.  (i guess that means wherever there was a Banco De Oro, they were offline.)

so then i went about my business for the day - going to work, going back to the DFA to get my passport (which took about 2 hours and my trip is tomorrow!), went shopping for stuff i need for my trip, and then went to Banco De Oro - Megamall to try again to get my money changed to USD.

again, as luck would have it, they said i could only get my money changed at the branch where i have an account (which is in Santolan) and it was freakin 5pm already!  so then i asked if i can open an account so that i can get my money changed, but NO!  they said i can't open an account with them for that purpose alone.

and, of course, the black market money changers only buy and not sell.

so now i have just the one measly dollar in my wallet that i've kept forever, and i'm supposed to be going abroad on an 8am flight tomorrow.

excuse me but... f*ck that.

can i just share that what a load of crap work is today?

i'm supposed to give up production for today to work on and finish auditing 8 cases that have only been sent this morning using an Excel form the macros to which do not work so that we have to manually copy-paste-transpose values for each worksheet for those 8 cases.

this from a company that uses Tiger Woods as their model and is believed to be an industry leader.
go figure.

t'was raining cats and dogs earlier, and i was thinking that at some point today, stainedshirt was gonna txt me to cancel our long overdue and twice-postponed get-together... 

and then...

him: Ready k s bagyo? ;)
me:  I smell fear.  Wahaha.  Ready ako noh.  May baon pa kong bota.  Wahaha.  Joke.
him: Oh fear is nowhere near me. Lol. C ya.
me:  I love you xavier.  U make me laugh.  Natawa tlga ako sa reply mo, pramis.  Hahaha.  Cya later.  Ingat. Ü
him: Hahahaha.  Ingat din. Ü


so funny...
and i'm so babaw...
LOL

i've always loved The Cure.
i just never thought i'd actually feel this song...

my office phone (or, actually, the phone closest to me at work) rang just a few minutes ago, and the console showed "Red Sternberg".  for those of you who don't know or can't remember, Red Sternberg happens to be this cute teenage TV star from this show called TGIS (Thank God It's Sabado) from centuries ago.  he's with our company's HR department now and he's still really cute.  (or, at least, he was when i last saw him at a work event.)

anyways... 

my officemate, Melissa, was standing by ready to pick up expecting that it was our old boss, but i picked up before she did.

with my best modulated call center voice, i spoke, "hello?  thank you for calling ********* Quality.  this is Mariel."

the other party spoke in this sleazy voice asking to speak to me.  it WAS our old boss doing his fake prank caller voice again.

kakatawang kakawalang-gana. LOL.

working in a call center can be very interesting, not to mention hilarious, when you come across or experience bloopers that are either just really funny, or really stupid, or both.

here's a sample documentation blooper i found just a while ago for the account i handle - a DSL provider:

MEMBER: xxxxxxxxxxx
ISSUE: member infected by virus (herpes maybe?)

LOL